FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Position Reports To: Quality Manager

Summary Description:

• Interpret engineering drawings, schematic diagrams or formulas
• Confer with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards (as required)
• Review production purchase orders, change orders, blueprints, specifications for compliance to company and customer requirements
• Initiate and follow-up on routing and operations procedure changes per customer purchase orders, blueprints and specification requirement changes
• Review all sub-contractual documents and generate quality attachments and conduct sub-contractor surveys as applicable
• Initiate, submit and follow-up on the completion of internal and external corrective action requests
• Participate in post-award customer surveys
• Responsible for ensuring that AS 9000, ISO 9001, QS 9000 are implemented and adhered to in your area
• Serve as customer contact for quality-related communications, including return goods authorization, surveys and requests for waiver of deviation, etc.
• Provide interpretation of quality requirements on production floor
• Perform and document audits of all phases of current production manufacture, i.e. core making, assembly, molding, cleaning, non-destructive testing, heat treating, etc.
• Responsible for completeness of certifications prior to shipment
• Schedule and present hardware to customer source inspector
• Calibrate all gages used for production/inspection
• Select products for periodic audit at specified stages in the production process and test these products for variety of qualities such as dimensions, performance and mechanical electrical or chemical characteristics
• Record test data, applying statistical quality control procedures
• Evaluate data and write reports to validate or indicate deviation from existing standards
• Recommend modifications of existing quality or production standards to achieve optimum quality within limits of equipment capability
• Provide first article layout and capability studies
• Evaluate data and coordinate acceptance/corrections with engineering, the customer, patternmaker and/or tool and die facility
• Help train employees on Quality Techniques, i.e. SPC, Pareto Charts, Fishbone Diagrams, Cause and Effect Diagrams, etc.
• Perform any and all other job related tasks as assigned

• Read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations
• Write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public

• Work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry
• Apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations

• Define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

• Use of overhead cranes and forklift operation
• Periodic heavy lifting
• Handling of molten aluminum
• Hot parts
• Pinch points
• Rotating equipment
• Automated equipment
• Repetitive motion
• Trip hazards
• High ambient temperatures
• Head hazards
• Risk of electrical shock

Disclaimer: This job description is not intended, nor should it be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, or working conditions associated with a particular job. It is intended only to be a general description of the essential functions common to positions of this type.